The Sea Creature of the Day is the Dragonfish!!!!
i wanted to save these guys for a special occasion but im so sleepy tonight and wanted to look at them 🥰 dragonfish are one of my favorite deep sea fish!!! something about them is so creepy in the most adorable way and i want to hug them
dragonfish are very diverse and im doing them a bittt of a disservice lumping them all together for this post. my favorites are the barbeled dragonfish that are unique for their lure, pictured in the first image :3
such an iconic fish that so many think about when thinking about deep sea creatures and i hope they feel appreciated for that 💜💜💜💜
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i’m years i’m hours i’m minutes away from now. i don’t remember yesterday but i do remember the sand under my feet. that grainy landscape, wet from the tide pulling its lips back to reveal those sodden gums. i remember jellyfish washed ashore—just a couple, these bright, dead wonders. i remember driftwood, and seaweed that’s sharp to the touch. i remember a roiling sea of emotions in my head, trying desperately to interpret my mother’s silent rage. my father’s explosiveness. i remember cursing at him for the first time. that anger, bigger than a child of twelve. bigger than the sadness. so unfathomable, burning me away. i remember little cones and turrets and the blunt, scalloped edges of a shell the exact shade of aged bone. i remember the ocean, that salt burning in my nose and my mouth and the water in my lungs, little body so sure. certain. i think i lost her there, in the waves. i think the current kept her, because she isn’t here anymore. i remember unconscious joy, singleminded determination to go further out. always further. i remember that golden gleam as i dove for that ring. thinking i had found a spark in that well-traveled reef. coming up into open air to shout, “I FOUND SOMETHING! DAD!”
what are the odds that your father loses his wedding ring in the open ocean, and you find it again?
i remember the opulence of a strawberry smoothie, more than once. caked in mud, and buried in the sand by my uncle. then running, all of us, into the waves. i remember holding his hand, and almost being ripped away by the strength of the water. delighting in it. reveling in my own fear.
i remember being cocooned in a wave, and taking a breath. i remember an impossibility. oxygen entering, wreathed in salt water, where there is no air for my human lungs.
god do i remember the sea. i remember the ocean. years away, countries away. i remember the small island where i bought a book i thought i would never see again. i remember everything except the house where we stayed. i remember the cats, the wind, the car as if i were driving it myself.
always years, hours, minutes away.
never here.
always there.
somewhere else.
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Hi! I'm Sierra. Time for a pinned post refresh.
Otherwise known as CatboyBiologist, or @hi-sierra (my SFW blog [this one is SFW too, but less so]). This page is remaining active, but if you want to find me somewhere else, I use the same username on reddit, Instagram, co-host, and tech.lgbt. This is me:
Trans woman, PhD student in molecular biology, boymoder, shitposter, freediver, hot girl on your phone, hiker, rambler (this post included), tgirl tummy tuesday supplier and enjoyer, former femboy, bane of bioessentialist fuckwads who try to use biology to validate biogotry, flaming bisexual, 196 nanocelebrity… whatever was the first thing that brought you to my blog, I hope it’s enough to get you to stay! I post selfies, hornyposts (minors and people who are averse to that be warned), stuff about the ocean, posts about my growing sense of wanderlust, my adorable lil tortoise, tutorials for transfemmes and GNC people, rambles about science, documentation of my own transition, rambles about transness, rambles about the eroticism of programming a machine to feel arousal, rambles about nature, and random shitposts. Please send me pictures of cute animals in your life!
If you wanna support my science career and my transition, consider dropping a tip here! PhD salaries are notorious for being negotiated to be exactly the cost of living…. And then forgotten about for years as inflation drops that below minimum wage. So I’m always a little strapped for cash. Anything helps!
Links to some of my tutorials and relevant resources under the cut:
I'm tracking my transition, and some people have said they found this helpful! This spreadsheet is generally updated monthly:
Usually, I write a little journal to go with it when it updates- you can find that under the #trans journal on my blog.
If you're interested in checking out some of the things I'm trying to write, here's a post with links to individual stories I'm making:
https://www.tumblr.com/catboybiologist/741010247774306304/writing-consolidation-post?source=share
My femboy guide, written well before I started HRT, but still has relevant info:
A "boyboob" tutorial, aka how to make it look like you have cleavage in an outfit that looks better with it:
A quick and dirty guide to taking better selfies, with a specific emphasis on people who may have stopped hating their body recently due to transition:
And here's a few of my personal favorite little rambles and posts about my transness, in no particular order:
CW for transphobia on this one:
A massive shoutout to @foldingfittedsheets for this amazing art of the lil borgir holding a trans flag:
I adore this so much <3 if you want to support their art, her commissions are open and really sweet!!!!
And of course, a massive shoutout to @whalesharkcat for this lovely pixel art of my tortoise:
I still love this so much, and will continue to into the future <3
For preHRT selfies, search the femboy tag. For post HRT selfies, use the "trans selfie" tag. I've been on HRT since August of 2023, so I'm still very early in the process! Day to day, I present male, but I plan to change that around the 1 year mark.
I guess that's about it! One final note is that I've been alluding to video/podcast style things for a while now. With my aderrall prescription, I've actually put in a lot of research work that might lead to 1-4 of those, so that might actually happen in the near future! No promises of course, life always catches up to you.
And if you liked my previous pinned post better, here it is:
Anyways, if you read this far, thanks for sticking around and bbyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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The Sea Creature of the Day is the Ocean Sunfish!! (Mola Mola)
god sunfish are so cute they're so 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
these guys are the second largest bony fish in the world!! (second to another species of sunfish, the giant sunfish :3) they can weigh up to 2,250 points and almost 11 feet in height. their movement is pretty much entirely unique among fish, seeing as they lack a tail fin.
they're so unique and big and friendly and they make me so incredibly happy 💜
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